From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 03:46:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A611065672 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 03:46:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0DF8FC1F for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 03:46:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so754652qwe.7 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 20:46:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=QOtDYYuwPPdfYYXn/S20mGZAfS+LLFcY8W3v/hq2z/g=; b=kIFZf8nNS4+/TP7n17WR6DLi4onITQBmWQtnE7XD4o6PkUBm9ont6DartaHVwe8nXO 9sowur6pRCApu7vMFK+MypjVXuqZX5A3IE5+dD6xbOcMiWVaNJofAJuiQpVXJkbTjJzD Krh3rSvp46mKmQzL964S41b1aV4IIGV0dhqL0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=TC4T9N2GJ+YoDLhlVx8/o35ANyKXNfH84voRq1MXF11Zgfw1HyARcLh53afMYp86hX PiEC7vm4r1D4ltbhmSEl03Ggtw7xjyZr75p0zSuNlfmRs87gGrvQCVCr4CdbjXm3mTQo GGDqsYuNwWPp4HFc61NGWBMRaX+urcO3BAljY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.97.75 with SMTP id k11mr2519938vcn.42.1242272769188; Wed, 13 May 2009 20:46:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090513114739.GA67782@ei.bzerk.org> References: <3a142e750905120310j7b811549xb01cd88ff2481ec4@mail.gmail.com> <15082180.2441242135390245.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> <20090513114739.GA67782@ei.bzerk.org> From: Tim Judd Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:45:49 -0600 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 03:46:11 -0000 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:36:31AM -0700, Peter Steele typed: > > > FUD, read ifconfig(8) > > > > There is no mention of wake-on-LAN in the man page for ifconfig in 7.0. > I'd be interested in seeing if the 8.0 man page has added anything. > > It has: > > wol, wol_ucast, wol_mcast, wol_magic > Enable Wake On Lan (WOL) support, if available. WOL is a > facil- > ity whereby a machine in a low power state may be woken in > response to a received packet. There are three types of > packets > that may wake a system: ucast (directed solely to the machine's > mac address), mcast (directed to a broadcast or multicast > address), or magic (unicast or multicast frames with a ``magic > contents''). Not all devices support WOL, those that do > indicate > the mechanisms they support in their capabilities. wol is a > syn- > onym for enabling all available WOL mechanisms. To disable WOL > use -wol. > > Ruben > I just noticed my 7.2-R i386 PC-Engines ALIX2 board with vr devices show up (WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC) in the ifconfig listing. Seems they're making some of it available in 7.2-RELEASE I'll have to test/try this out, I'm glad I'm starting to see it happen. Thought you'd all like to know.